POWER VCR---->VCD?HELP!

[MALB75]

I have a ati tv wonder pci card and I use power vcr to capture my video's. The problem is that when I use the NTSC VCD compliant profile to record the video, when I burn it and try watching it on my dvd player, it skips from scene to scene. My dvd player does play vcd's. I use nero to burn it and the vcd from power vcr is compliant. If I record in another profile and then convert in nero, it plays on dvd, but the quality isn't very good. Just before I burn the vcd in nero, I play the vcd from power vcr and everything looks good. Its just when I try to play the power vcr vcd on my dvd that everything skips. Has anyone experienced this problem and if so, how in the world can I just record in real time vcd from power vcr, then burn product on disk to watch on dvd without having to record in some other profile, and then convert and burn?

[gll99]

I remember a previous thread where someone suggested that the mpeg file be demultiplexed with tmpgenc and remultiplexed with either bbmpeg or tmpgenc.

I don't know if the trick worked cause there was not feedback posted.

What is your video rate (compliant NTSC can be 23.97 and 29.97) but some people have problems with the lower framerate.

[kuranuk]

This could be one of several problems, and it would help if we knew the model of your standalone player. I haven't had much experience with burning with Nero, but I have several suggestions to try.

- Try de-multiplexing. Current versions of TMPGEnc (available in the tools section) are nice and easy for this. When you re-multiplex, make sure to select the MPEG-1 VCD stream setting to write the proper stream headers.

- If this fails to work, try de-multiplexing, then with MPEG Sequence Maker (also available in the TOOLS section of this site), try re-writing (not re-encoding) the video stream. This inserts MPEG sequence headers which are required to play VCDs properly on some players (my player had this problem)

--Hope this helps.

[MALB75]

My rate is 29.97 and my stand alone player is a Toshiba. It does sound like a multiplex problem, but if you are going to go through the trouble of re-multiplexing the mpeg, why not just run it through the vcd encoding in TMPGENC? I don't know if this is too much to ask, but I would like to capture a vcd compliant video and burn it to a disk without remultiplexing of re-encoding to same vcd I just captured. I don't guess that things can be that simple in such a complicated world. Does anyone know of program that can capture vcd compliant video and burn right to disk to play on dvd player?

[gll99]

Because Nero will change any specs that it does not believe are standard and reencode with its own built-in encoder.

[gll99]

I did a bit of reading on the site to see if your problem has come up before.

You may want to do a search on Powervcr and ati.

Seems some problems at the lower bitrates.

You could try to up the bitrate to non standard xvcd and see if your player can handle your caps better. Try 1300, 1400 or 1500. Test on cdrw not to waste any disks. Do 3 different 10 minute captures varying the bitrate and try them on 1 disk then see how they compare. Try to use the same show even though its different parts the lighting etc... will be similar.

[kuranuk]

but if you are going to go through the trouble of re-multiplexing the mpeg, why not just run it through the vcd encoding in TMPGENC?

I understand, and agree that it seems like unneccessary effort. The deeper into VCDs I get, the more complicated it seems to become to do increasingly simpler things. Hopefully these other posts will fix this problem in a single step, but I want to clarify - multiplexing is simply mixing (muxing) a pre-encoded video stream and audio stream together, no actual encoding is involved. As such, it is many times faster than re-encoding would take, and without any quality loss since the only thing actually changed is header information.